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Unraveling the Mithras Mystery: Magic Mushrooms, Democracy, and Secret Cults
Ancient rituals, psychoactive substances, and political revolution
This is an excerpt from Sky Gods and the Recipe for Immortality: The secret influence of psychoactivity over science, society, and the supernatural.
Dr Carl Jung once indicated the potentially supernatural reality in which McKenna proclaimed: “Life is stranger than even the strangest among us can suppose.” Carl Jung, the legendary psychologist, once shared an exemplary case study:
“We had a patient in the ward… he was quiet but completely dissociated schizophrenic and he was in the clinic for twenty years he had come into the clinic… and led me to the window, and said Doc, now, now you will see! Now look at it! look up at the Sun and see how it moves. See, you must move your hair like this and then you will see the follows of the Sun and you know that’s the origin of the wind and you see how the Sun moves as you move your head from one side to the other!
Now of course I didnt understand it at all, I thought oh there you are, he’s just crazy but that case remained in my mind and four years later, I came across a paper written by the German historian… who had dealt with with the so-called Mithras Liturgy, a part of the great magical…